Lindsay Graham, a remnant of the Bush era Neocon fold, has been a busy bee in the past year. He has visited Ukraine at least three times since the war with Russia began, called for the assassination of Vladimir Putin, called for the US to directly attack Russian planes, and he’s even demanded that the US put troops on the ground in Taiwan to fight the Chinese. It just goes to show that there are certainly a number of politicians that identify as GOP Republicans that do not represent the will of most conservatives and moderates.
Graham’s latest visit with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has been broadly publicized. Andriy Yermak, the head of the president’s office, released footage of the meeting, intercut with dramatic piano music for effect:
Lindsey Graham was in Kiev today to promise Zelensky that the US will support the war effort in Ukraine to the last man. pic.twitter.com/GRCHgtPASh
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 26, 2023
The notion of “bi-partisan support” is broached with Graham applauding, saying that US efforts in Ukraine are “The best money we’ve ever spent.” Congress approved over $113 billion in funds to Ukraine in 2022 alone, and around 60% of that was directed into Ukraine’s military.
Zelensky once again asked for long range weapons and air defense systems at the meeting, which might indicate that Russian missile and drone bombardment has been more effective than the Ukrainians have been admitting. The recent destruction of a Patriot missile battery in Kiev suggests that current air defenses are not adequate to counter Russian hypersonic weapons.
Though full transcripts of the discussion are not available, there was also some coverage of the Wagner Group. According to Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin, topics included “continued joint efforts to counter the criminal activities of the Wagner Group in Ukraine and beyond…” Even after the Wagner Group successfully defeated NATO trained Ukraine forces in Bakhmut, Lindsay Graham suggests that “the Russians are done.”
This kind of premature celebration does make one wonder if NATO is giving Ukraine false hope in their chances of gaining back any territory in the Donbas, let alone Crimea, given their long hinted “counter-offensive” has still not materialized. And Graham’s suggestion of bi-partisan US support is curious given polls show support from both sides of the political spectrum is waning.
American zeal for aid to Ukraine was never as widespread as the media made it seem, and there are no streets in the US with Ukrainian flags flying high as Joe Biden once claimed. However, among Democrats there has been a larger margin of blind enthusiasm for the war effort. This is changing.
Polling now shows that even on the political left there has been a marked decline in support, with the idea of any US military involvement becoming highly unpopular. After almost 20 years of fighting in a host of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria under the direction of people like George Bush, Lindsay Graham and Barack Obama, Americans are growing rather tired of the war hawks.
In the case of Ukraine, the political dynamic seems to have flipped, with Democrats now becoming the war party while conservatives largely oppose involvement. Meetings like the one featured from Lindsay Graham may be designed to draw out the war by encouraging empty bravado, when diplomacy and an ending to the conflict should be the goal. But where does it end? If Graham has his way, the inevitable result would be WWIII.
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Why can’t South Carolina elect a heterosexual senator?
What’s their State bird, the Yellow Bellied Speckled Cockhammer?
Don’t get me started. I’m TRYIN’ to cut PA some slack and it’s hard enough as is.
Their State bird is the Dodo.
Also? Franklin had it right. America is a fuckin’ turkey.
Not certain. Could be the Speckled Cunthammer?
No, their state bird is the Feathered Sausage.
Because elections are fake.
anf gay.
It’s Sunday. You can stop drinkin’ now!
:o)
3 day weekend.
Cheers!
Because South Carolina is a third world shithole controlled by Africans and imbeciles ?
“We”
2023/2024 = 1776
2023 / 2024=0.999505928854
(I’m filling in for TBP autists)
Very clever.
~ O.P. Anon
WELL OF FUCKING COURSE HE DOES !!!
FAKE…MEET …GAY. GAY, FAKE.
Have at it bitches! And don’t forget the eye bleach.
Also…try to work a piano and an accordion into the act. Fags love musicals!
Meanwhile in Chicago the beaches open with a Memorial Day celebration of diversity.
I take your point, but I’m thinking the one Cain used was jagged, whereas the ones David chose were smooth…so it’s a little bit about the rock. Right tool for the job and all.
The “bad hands rock” guy was cursed for life for a singular act of violence.
The “good hands rock” guy later commited adultery, had the cucked man murdered, got caught and the baby paid the debt with its life.
And here I thought the “Mosaic Law” demanded death for adultery and murder.
Seems the ruling class have always found mercy for their households.
You are right.
It’s not the rock.
Its The Narrative.
or the narrative is the rock.
that the soft spot invites in.
its not the narrative-rock.
its the soft spot.
bottom up. not top down.
Building the world’s largest gallows around the rejecting pool on the mall in DC would be the best money ever spent.
You’d think so…until you found yourself next in line for it. Unintended consequences anyone?
”In the case of Ukraine, the political dynamic seems to have flipped, with Democrats now becoming the war party while conservatives largely oppose involvement. ”
Not today Zerohedge.
If CONservatives wanted to oppose they would stop funding the war.
If they wanted to stop the 5th Column border invasion of millions of unknown military age males , they would have held up debt ceiling talks.
Miss Lindsay will be on the Sunday shows ( just before Decoration Day ) telling how this is all needed to ” protect ukranian nazi democracy ” or some shit.
Perhaps US Boots on the ground in larger numbers ?
Peace Sells , But Who’s Buying ?
“The Sunday Shows” are Cotillion for fag Democrat politicians.
I’d rather watch the Westminster Dog Show ffs. There would be less leg humping.
If you flip the channels , they finish each others talking point sentences in real time. Try It.
What C.F.R. owned press won’t say.
” Russia is ready for peace talks with Ukraine, but will not give up its conditions, Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin said in an interview with the BBC.
“Two things are important for us. That Ukraine does not pose a threat to Russia is the first. And the second is that Russians and Ukrainians are treated as [representatives of] the rest of the world. Like the French are treated in Belgium or Italians or Germans in Switzerland, not in a special way. We cannot tolerate discrimination. This is a flagrant violation of the [Universal] Declaration of Human Rights and all other documents,” the ambassador said. ”
@WarMonitors – 5/28
I’m sure it’s lined his pockets quite well. I’m with Mr Liberty. The entire Congress, President, and SCOTUS should hang. First go after the mid and upper level Senior Executives Service people. That’s you deep state, at least over here on this side of the pond.
And then they retired to the bedroom for a night of fisting and felching.
In the ‘50’s they didn’t want gays in government because they were susceptible to being blackmailed with threats of being exposed. Now we have this queen trying to prove his manhood by being the most militaristic.
I have total confidence The Don will end this skirmish between UkraineUSA and Russia and all the US troops worldwide will come back to Merika and defend the southern border. He’ll do something like reduce MIC spending straight across the board. But Don, those MIC stocks and all not to mention all the gated communities MIC resides in. MIC must live in minimum million $ homes don’t you know?
ok/s
In his defence, since McCain died he’s been lonley and needs a little male on male bonding time and shitensky owes him a good pounding.
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Look at the shoes you’re filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
An’ I don’t want to hear no more
My hands are tied
For all, I’ve seen has changed my mind
But still, the wars go on, as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
An’ all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars
Your power hungry, sellin’ soldiers in a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh? I don’t need your civil war
Guns & Roses
Aah. Gums N Noses…one of my guilty pleasures.
Remember when they tried to create a Christian Rock supergroup?
They were gonna call it “Nuns N Moses”
Ba-doom. “Paradise City” would have very different lyrics . . .
Better without Asshole Rose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnlG_ddctI
Looks like TBP suddenly won’t post YouTube thumbnails consistently. The above URL is to “Welcome To The Jungle” (original) with the vocal track erased.
“And when I’m elected, I’ll drain the swamp and go after the RINOs!”
– Donald J. Trump 1/28/23 at Columbia SC while flanked onstage by RINOs, Lindsey Graham and Joe Wilson
Sorry y’all, we need to do better here in the palmetto state. We attended the speech and couldn’t believe this bullsh*t.
The “answer”. Get ’em at Amazon.
Jeezus, the man is insane.
Who was pitching …Lispy or Stiletto boy?
Just wait for the money you will have spent on all-out nuclear WW3!
Lindsey Graham was in Kiev today to promise Zelensky that the US will support the war effort in Ukraine to the last man.
He must be talking about himself here.
Because I sure as hell am not going to die on Pukechop Hill.
Creepy little man.
Why is it every time I see Templeton I imagine him nibbling on a piece of cheese?
Looks like he’s in a contest with Millie to be queen of the Neocons.
FAGGOT
Traitorous little neo-con party girl Lady Graham is gushing over the prospect of WWIII…he’s so excited he’s performing fellatio on the entire Uke Nazi cabal…in No Names honor.
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Lindsey Graham/Height = 5′ 7″
Volodymyr Zelenskyy/Height = 5′ 7″
McCain was a giant at 5’9”.
1st & foremost:
NOT my intent to point out anyone’s shortcomings.
🤣 could NOT resist. “Shortcomings”.
Slightly warped/twisted/folded/spindled/mutilated, (But already readily apparent) AND 👁 have ‘removed’ every label from EVERY mattress encountered. “Under Penalty! of Law”.
Child’s Play.
That Said, at least as far as i know? NOBODY gets to determine their own ‘attributes’, from skin color to I.Q. Yet.
(Whateva that, ‘I.Q.’, means.)
AGES OLD ‘discussion’. Nature/Nurture.
imho? CLEARLY, SOME contributing ‘Factor(s)’. BOTH sides.
However, FIRMLY ‘onboard’ w/NOT my place to Judge.
Throw back to a reference from:
And while it has been quite a few years since READ, Some Variant of Mustard, Ketchup, & Pickles was used in said book. Can NOT recall which word was “Attack!”
But i digress. ‘Cloning’ was the overarching premise.
AMAZED that sooo many ‘players’ are in fact, 5’7″.
Lifelong ‘affliction’ w/OCD. Too.
Coincidence vs. Irony. THAT is my ‘Real’ lifelong struggle.
Just another DC PIECE OF SHIT with the most important DC ability staying power while never being held accountable for squat
Beware any politician who thinks funding wars overseas is our business. I’d like to ask ‘Lil Lindsey just exactly what benefit giving Zelensky money provides American citizens? Because I sure as hell don’t see any!
…”Representative”.
” just exactly what benefit giving Zelensky money provides American citizens?”
Just Whom Was/Is being “Represented”, (From The Beginning) IS where the ‘confusion’ arises.
Interesting(ish). Alex has an off the record version. Thoughts?